CURRICULUM VITAE. Charles C. Bolton

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1 Department of History The University of North Carolina at Greensboro P.O. Box Greensboro, NC (336) (office) (336) (mobile) Administrative Appointments CURRICULUM VITAE Charles C. Bolton Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, 2017-present, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Head, Department of History, , University of North Carolina at Greensboro Chair, Department of History, , University of Southern Mississippi Director, Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage, , University of Southern Mississippi Director of Graduate Studies, , Department of History, University of Southern Mississippi Director, Mississippi Oral History Program, , University of Southern Mississippi Academic Appointments Professor of History, 2005-present, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Distinguished Spartan Scholar, UNCG Humanities Network and Consortium, Professor of History, , University of Southern Mississippi Associate Professor of History, , University of Southern Mississippi Assistant Professor of History, , University of Southern Mississippi Visiting Assistant Professor of History, , Macon College, Macon, Georgia

2 Education 2 Ph.D. - Department of History, Duke University, 1989 MA - Department of History, Duke University, 1986 BS (History) - University of Southern Mississippi, 1982 Publications Books: William F. Winter and the New Mississippi: A Biography, University Press of Mississippi, Winner of the McLemore Prize, Mississippi Historical Society, With All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown v. Board of Education, edited jointly with Brian Daugherity, University of Arkansas Press, The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle over School Integration in Mississippi, , University Press of Mississippi, Mississippi: An Illustrated History, with Edward N. Akin, American Historical Press, The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South, edited jointly with Scott Culclasure, University of Georgia Press, A Synopsis of American History, 8 th ed., with Neil R. McMillen (made updates throughout and wrote new chapters for the 8 th ed.), Ivan R. Dee, Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi, Duke University Press, Articles, essays, and encyclopedia articles: William F. Winter: The Politician as Historian, The Southern Quarterly (November 2016). William F. Winter and the Politics of Racial Moderation in Mississippi, Journal of Mississippi History 70 (Winter 2008): Winner of the Willie D. Halsell Prize, Mississippi Historical Society, Planters, Plain Folk, and Poor Whites in the Old South, in The Blackwell Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction, edited by Lacy K. Ford (Blackwell Publishers, 2005),

3 3 Race and Ethnicity: Poor Whites, in Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy, edited by Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O Connor, Volume 2 (ABC-Clio, 2004), Farmers Without Land: The Plight of White Tenant Farmers and Sharecroppers, Mississippi History Now, March 2004 < Freedom Riders, Nonviolence Philosophy, and Redd Foxx, in Malcolm X Encyclopedia, edited by Robert L. Jenkins (Greenwood Press, 2002), , , and States Rights Party, in Oxford Companion to American History (Oxford University Press, 2001), 745. Mississippi s School Equalization Program, : A Last Gasp to Try to Maintain a Segregated Educational System, Journal of Southern History (November 2000): The Last Stand of Massive Resistance: Mississippi Public School Integration, 1970" Journal of Mississippi History (Winter 1999): A Brief History of Mississippi s Pine Hills, Mississippi Folklife 30 (1998): The Three White Classes of Antebellum North Carolina, Tar Heel Junior Historian (Fall 1996): 23. Voices of Ethnic Diversity in Mississippi, co-authored with Shana Walton and Homer Hill, Mississippi Folklife 29 (Summer/Fall 1996): Twenty-six reviews in twelve publications (Alabama Review, American Historical Review, The Journal of Mississippi History, The Journal of Southwest Georgia History, Agricultural History, The Southern Quarterly, The Journal of American History, Georgia Historical Quarterly, Labor History, North Carolina Historical Review, Oral History Review, Greensboro News and Record). Presentations (Panelist) History of Education Reform in Mississippi, 200 Years of Review: Education and the Mississippi Constitution, Mississippi College Law Review Symposium, Jackson, (Invited Speaker) The History of School Desegregation in Mississippi, Winning the Race: Advancing Education in the Mississippi Delta Conference, Cleveland, Mississippi, (Panelist) Schools in Change, Mississippi Book Festival, Jackson, 2016.

4 (Panelist) Biloxi School Desegregation: A Historic First, Biloxi, Mississippi, (Commentator) Colorblindness and School Desegregation in the Deep South, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, (Panelist) Remembering Lawrence C. Goodwyn: Reflections on How to Study and Organize Around Class, Race, and Power, Labor and Working-Class History Association Annual Meeting, (Commentator) Is Separate Inherently Unequal? Student Empowerment in Private and Community Schools, The Place of Education in African American History and Culture: The Eight Annual Conference of the Triangle African American History Colloquium, (Invited Speaker) The Battle over School Integration in Mississippi and the Nation, University of Southern Mississippi, (Invited Speaker) School Desegregation in Mississippi, Black History Expo, Biloxi, Mississippi, (Invited Speaker) Oral History: Listening to Our Past, Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration, (Commentator) Poor Whites, Labor, and Law in the Antebellum and Civil War South, Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, (Commentator) Five Years On: Emerging Crises and the Oral History Association, Oral History Association Annual Meeting, (Commentator) `Where We Come From: Contested and Constructed Histories of Small Town Texas, Oral History Association Annual Meeting, (Panelist) School Desegregation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, 50 th Anniversary Wade-In Commemoration, (Invited Speaker) Why the Oral History Project Matters, Mississippi Oral History Project 10 th Anniversary Celebration, (Panelist) With All Deliberate Speed: A Roundtable Discussion of Desegregation in Education since 1954, History of Education Society Annual Meeting, (Presenter) White Memories of School Integration in Mississippi, Oral History Association Annual Meeting, 2007.

5 (Invited Keynote Speaker) Oral History: Memories of Mississippi s Past, Mississippi Historical Society Annual Meeting, (Commentator) Outsiders Seeking the American Dream, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, (Presenter) The Many Faces of Collaboration: Computers, Collections, and Call Numbers, Association of College and Research Libraries Annual Meeting, (Presenter) Freedom-of-Choice School Desegregation in Mississippi: A Failed Policy, Conference on the South, (Panelist) Empowerment!: Documenting African Americans Since the Civil Rights Movement, Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, (Presenter) Oral History and the Internet at the University of Southern Mississippi, Oral History Association Annual Meeting, (Panelist) My History is America s History, National Humanities Conference, (Invited Speaker) Mississippi s School Equalization Campaign, Gladys Noel Bates Teachers Conference: Equalization of Pay and the Struggle for Equality, (Invited Speaker) The Desegregation of Mississippi Public Schools, The Third Biennial Historic Natchez Conference, (Panelist) "Capturing the Spoken Word: Oral History in the South," Southern Archivists Conference, (Presenter) "Making Space for NASA: Forced Migration in Hancock County, Mississippi, ," Oral History Association Annual Meeting, (Presenter) "Edward Isham and Poor White Labor in the Old South," Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, November Grants and Awards Teaching American History Grant from the U. S. Department of Education, , coproject director with Mary Beth Farrell ($850,000). Created a three-year series of colloquia and summer institutes to train forty Mississippi secondary social studies teachers in United States History content and pedagogy. Mississippi Oral History Program, funded through a line-item appropriation from the Mississippi Legislature, , project director ($500,000). Project done in collaboration with the

6 Mississippi Humanities Council. This first phase of funding launched a statewide oral history program that created community-based oral history projects in five locales around the state of Mississippi. The Mississippi Legislature has continued to provide funding at various levels for this statewide initiative since Stennis Space Center History Project, funded by NASA, , project director ($375,000 over the fourteen-year period). This project set up and maintained a history archive at the John C. Stennis Space Center and also developed an oral history project to document the creation and development of the south Mississippi NASA facility. Public Humanities Scholar Award, Mississippi Humanities Council, Award of Merit, Mississippi Historical Society, 1999, for the radio documentary, Mississippi Voices: A Trip through the Twentieth Century. Creator, co-producer, and narrator of this radio documentary series, which aired on Mississippi Public Radio between November 1998 and March Civil Rights Documentation Project, funding from the Mississippi Legislature and the Mississippi Humanities Council, , project director ($110,000). Project done in collaboration with the Tougaloo College Archives. This project led to a nationwide survey to create an online bibliography of existing oral histories about the Mississippi civil rights movement; the recording and preservation of new interviews in several Mississippi communities; and the development of an interactive CD-ROM about the Mississippi movement, which was distributed to Mississippi secondary schools. Aubrey K. Lucas Faculty Excellence Award, University of Southern Mississippi, Select Service Professional: Member, Program Committee, Southern Historical Association, Member, Nominating Committee, Oral History Association, , (chair ). Member, Nominating Committee, Southern Historical Association, Chair, McLemore Committee (book award), Mississippi Historical Society, Organizer, New Voyages to Carolina conference, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2013.

7 Co-Program Chair, Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Member, Board of Editors, Journal of Southern History, Chair, Emerging Crises Oral History Fund, Oral History Association, Chair, Book Award Committee, Oral History Association, Member, Ad-Hoc Committee on Oral History and New Media, Oral History Association, Presenter at more than thirty professional development workshops for secondary social studies educators in a dozen states. The American Institute for History Education or the National Council for History Education organized these workshops, University: Chair, General Education Self-Study Task Force, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Member, Steering Committee for War and Peace Imagined Program, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Member, Auditorium Naming Committee, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Member, Board of Trustees Aycock Subcommittee, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Co-Chair, Aycock Ad-Hoc Committee, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Member, Research Excellence Awards Committee, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Member, Search Committee, African American Studies Director, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Member, Task Force on Faculty Diversity, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Member, Search Committee, Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Southern Mississippi,

8 8 Council of Chairs, University of Southern Mississippi, (Executive Committee, ). Co-Chair, Search Committee, Director for the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, University of Southern Mississippi, Member, Environment Committee, University of Southern Mississippi, Faculty Senate, University of Southern Mississippi, External Review Committees: Member, External Review Team, Program Review, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University, Member, External Review Team, Program Review, Department of History, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Member, Site Visit Team, National Endowment for the Humanities, Program Review, Mississippi Humanities Council, Member, External Review Team, Program Review, Department of History, University of Colorado Denver, Community: President, Grimsley Band Boosters, Grimsley High School, Greensboro, North Carolina, Parent Representative, Leadership Council, Grimsley High School, Greensboro, North Carolina, Courses Taught World Civilization Survey, 1500 to the Present (regular section and honors section) The World in the Twentieth Century Survey, U.S. History Survey Historical Skills and Methods Mississippi History The New South The Twentieth Century South Origins of Modern America, Oral History and Public History (study-abroad course in France)

9 Oral History and the Veterans Experience (honors course) Oral History Seminar Doing Visual History (team-taught course with Matthew Barr, Media Studies, UNCG) Colloquium in American History Since 1865 Seminar in American History Since 1877 The United States: Depression and War,